Quotes of: Persian Keyword

We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.

The Persian Boy

King Leonidas: This is where we hold them. [pause] King Leonidas: This is where we fight! [pause] King Leonidas: And this is where THEY DIE! Captain: On these shield, boys! Spartans: AU! King Leonidas: Remember this day, men, for it will be yours for...

300

To hate excellence is to hate the gods.

The Persian Boy

Arabic is a language, Persian is a delicacy and Turkish is an art.

Iranian

Captain: [Battling the Persians] NO PRISONERS! King Leonidas: [Stabbing a Persian soldier] NO MERCY!

300

I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.

The Persian Letters

King Leonidas: [on being told the Persians are coming to parley] Captain, I leave you in charge. Captain: But, sire... King Leonidas: Relax, old friend. If they assassinate me, all of Sparta goes to war. Pray they're that stupid. Pray we're that luck...

300

Every man is capable of doing good to another, but to contribute to the happiness of an entire society is to become akin to the gods

The Persian Letters

Few Iranians these days go through the fiction of calling themselves 'Persian.' Calling yourself Persian is a way of distancing themselves from Iran.

Reza Aslan

Persian: A thousand nations of the Persian empire will descend upon you. Our arrows will blot out the sun! Stelios: Then we will fight in the shade.

300

People stagger, but they pick up a tattered thread and wind it back onto a spool.

Maman's Homesick Pie: A Persian Heart in an American Kitchen

It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.

The Persian Boy

What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.

The Persian Letters

One female who knows what to do is better than a thousand males who don't. -

Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems

History is full of religious wars; but, we must take care to observe, it was not the multiplicity of religions that produced these wars, it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.

The Persian Letters

Dilios: They have served the dark will of Persian kings for five hundred years. Eyes as dark as night... teeth filed to fangs... soulless. The personal guard to King Xerxes himself; the Persian warrior elite. The deadliest fighting force in all of As...

300

I sometimes think the Pussy-Willows grey Are Angel Kittens who have lost their way, And every Bulrush on the river bank A Cat-Tail from some lovely Cat astray.

The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten

I have no time in the world but the time in which I am and that lasts a moment and passes like a cloud. -

Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems

The desire for glory is no different from that instinct for preservation that is common to all creatures. It is as if we enhance our being if we can gain a place in the memory of others; it is a new life that we acquire, which becomes as precious to ...

The Persian Letters

War begins like a pretty girl with whom every man wants to flirt and ends like an ugly old woman whose visitors suffer and weep -

Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems

I do not dye my hair black so as to be young again and sin again but because people dye their clothes black in mourning, so I have dyed my hair black, mourning for my old age. -

Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems